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To J. D. Hooker   8 [June 1863]

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Sends Asa Gray letter to JDH. Gray’s "Coolness about England and U. S. beats anything".

John Scott’s difficulties at Edinburgh Botanic Garden.

JS’s paper on Primula crossing experiments.

Sends MS note about closing of stigma in orchids being dependent on affinity of pollen and independent of protusion of pollen-tubes.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  8 [June 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 158
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4207

Matches: 9 hits

  • … from J.  D. Hooker, [1 March 1863] . See letter from John Scott, [3 June 1863] and n.  3. …
  • … 1864 ( Scott 1864a ). See the enclosure to the letter from John Scott, 21 May [1863] . …
  • … See letter from John Scott, [3 June 1863] . Scott’s paper was subsequently published in …
  • … Scott 1863a ; see letter from John Scott, 16 June [1863] ). The note referred to appeared …
  • … See letter from John Scott, [3 June 1863] and n.  5; the reference is to John Hutton …
  • … 29 May [1863] . See letter from John Scott, [3 June 1863] and n.  7; the reference is to …
  • … on the paper and Scott’s response, see the letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] , and the …
  • … letter from John Scott, [3 June 1863] . See also n.   …
  • … 9, below. See letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] . CD communicated Scott’s paper …

To J. D. Hooker   23 [June 1863]

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Herbert Spencer’s work disappointing – "all words & generalities".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  23 [June 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 196
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4218

Matches: 6 hits

  • … and letter from John Scott, 16 June [1863] . …
  • … See letter from John Scott, 16 June [1863] and n.  9. …
  • … See letter from John Scott, 16 June [1863] , and …
  • … letter to John Scott, 20 [June 1863] . See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [30 April 1863] and …
  • … See also letter from John Scott, [after 12] April [1863] . Scott 1863a . …
  • … D.  Hooker, 10 June 1863  and 19 June 1863 . See letter to John Scott, 11 June [1963] , …

From J. D. Hooker   [23–7 May 1863]

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Encloses his notions [missing] on John Scott’s offer; some points in explanation.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [23–7 May 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 141–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4134

Matches: 6 hits

  • … Scott’s dispute with McNab, see the letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863 . Scott wished to …
  • … lectures (see letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863  and n.  3). The letter appears to be a …
  • … directory 1863). See letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863 , and letter to J.  D.  Hooker, …
  • … Hutton Balfour . See letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863  and n.  1. Thomas Anderson was …
  • … J.  D.  Hooker, 23 May [1863] , and the letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] . Since …
  • … was sent with the letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] . Attempts by the British to …

To J. D. Hooker   29 May [1863]

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CD’s encouragement of John Scott, who has found a case of self-incompatibility in orchids, like William Herbert’s in Crinum.

Nägeli on phyllotaxy.

CD’s observations on broom fertilisation.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  29 May [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 195
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4191

Matches: 8 hits

  • … post he had been offered in Darjeeling, India (see letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863 ). …
  • … forwarded with the letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] . The note gave Scott advice …
  • … See letter from John Scott, 26 May [1863] . The reference is to John …
  • … has not been found. See letter from John Scott, 6 January 1863  and nn.  23 and 24. Scott …
  • … 7, above), for the Edinburgh Evening Courant (see letter from John Scott, 26 May [1863] ). …
  • … See letters from John Scott , 21 March [1863] and [1–11] April [1863] . The reference is …
  • … Hutton Balfour . See letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] . In his letter to CD of [ …
  • … reference is to John Scott (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 23 May [1863] , and letter from …

To J. D. Hooker   [21 February 1863]

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Plants, safely arrived from Kew, fill new greenhouse.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [21 Feb 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 182
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4004

Matches: 2 hits

  • … letter to John Scott, 16 February [1863] and n.  3. …
  • … in Acropera , see, for example, the letter to John Scott, 20 [February 1863] , and …

To J. D. Hooker   23 May [1863]

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Seeks advice for John Scott on job offer in India.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  23 May [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 194
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4180

Matches: 2 hits

  • … 20 February – 16 [March] 1848 . See letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863  and n.  5. …
  • … Letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863 . CD was seeking advice on John Scott’s behalf about a …

To J. D. Hooker   26 [March 1863]

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CD’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man.

Geographical distribution during and between glacial periods.

Latent characters and reversion.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  26 [Mar 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 188
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4061

Matches: 3 hits

  • … the Vandeae (see letter to John Scott, 16 February [1863] and n.  15). CD probably refers …
  • … the seeds had so far proved ineffectual (see letter from John Scott, 21 March [1863] ). …
  • … in February 1863; CD wished to compare a capsule produced artificially by John Scott from …

To J. D. Hooker   [1 April 1864]

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Proposes to support John Scott in research on relative fertility and self-incompatibility of plants. CD would pay him for a year or two but wants JDH to give him research facilities at Kew.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [1 Apr 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 226a–b
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4444

Matches: 3 hits

  • … Correspondence vol.  11, letter from John Scott, 6 January 1863 and nn.  23 and 24; ML 1: …
  • … vol.  11, letter from John Scott, 21 September [1863] , and this volume, letter from John …
  • 1863] and nn.  12–14). Scott’s experiments on the fertility of peloric flowers were undertaken at CD’s suggestion (see Correspondence vol.  10, letter to John

To J. D. Hooker   15 February [1863]

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Asa Gray on democracy of plants.

Requests plants for new hothouse. Transferring plants to Down in winter.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  15 Feb [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 181
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3986

Matches: 2 hits

  • … and letter to John Scott, 20 [June 1863] . With his letter to CD of 27 January 1863 , Gray …
  • John Scott, 19 December [1862] , and this volume, letter to Isaac Anderson-Henry, 20 January [1863] , …

To J. D. Hooker   23 April [1863]

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Grieved by Falconer’s and Prestwich’s treatment of Lyell.

Reproductive anatomy of the common ash reminds CD of JDH’s Welwitschia because of its transitional forms.

Pleased JDH encourages Oliver to do orchids.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  23 Apr [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 191
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4122

Matches: 1 hit

  • … January [1863] , and letter to John Scott, 20 [February 1863] and n.  3). Hooker replied …

From J. D. Hooker   [10 March 1865]

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Thomas Thomson has gone over Scott’s paper; encloses his conclusions. Not fit for publication in present form. His experiments should have been repeated to resolve his disagreement with Gärtner.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [10 Mar 1865]
Classmark:  DAR 102: 13–14
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4782

Matches: 2 hits

  • … vol.  11, letter from John Scott, 21 September [1863] , and Correspondence vol.  12, …
  • John Scott , 19 November [1862] and 11 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol.  10). CD also sent Scott a digest of Gärtner’s experiments (see Scott 1867 , p.  164). On the importance of Gärtner’s work for CD’s theory of natural selection, see Correspondence vol.  10, Appendix VI.  Scott’s experiments on Verbascum were made in 1863  …

From J. D. Hooker   [15 August 1864]

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Replies to queries on climbing plants.

JDH meets Scott and finds him an intelligent and superior-looking man. Scott wishes to come to Down before leaving England.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [15 Aug 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 232–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4590

Matches: 2 hits

  • … Correspondence vol.  11, letter from John Scott, [3 June 1863] , and this volume, letter …
  • John Hutton Balfour , regius keeper of the garden, was prejudiced against Scott because of Scott’s support for CD’s theory of natural selection (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 10 June 1863 , …

To J. D. Hooker   13 January [1863]

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Acquired characteristics.

Huxley’s lectures: good on induction, bad on sterility, obscure on geology.

Asa Gray on slavery.

Falconer’s partial conversion.

Alphonse de Candolle on Origin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  13 Jan [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 179
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3913

Matches: 2 hits

  • … and this volume, letter from John Scott, 6 January 1863  and nn.  3 and 4. See letter to …
  • 1863] and n.  24, and Appendix VI. See DAR 157.1: 111 and 112 for CD’s botanical notes on experiments with Nepenthes (pitcher plants). CD had experimented on the power of movement in Hedysarum and Mimosa in 1862 (see Correspondence vol.  10). CD was keen to obtain fresh flowers of Acropera ; for CD’s continuing investigation of this orchid genus, see Correspondence vol.  10, letter from John Scott, …

From J. D. Hooker   10 June 1863

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JDH lays hard treatment of John Scott to J. H. Balfour’s anti-Darwinism.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 June 1863
Classmark:  DAR 101: 149–50
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4210

Matches: 2 hits

  • … the enclosure to the letter from John Scott, 21 May [1863] , with his letter to Hooker of …
  • Scott’s papers to the Linnean Society . CD had enclosed the letter from Asa Gray, 26 May 1863 , with his letter to Hooker of 8 [June 1863] . Hooker and Asa Gray held radically different views on the American Civil War, and had for some time tacitly agreed not to discuss the matter in their letters (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [1 March 1863] and n.  7). Hooker refers to John Evans’s letter in the Athenæum , 6 June 1863, …

To J. D. Hooker   30 August [1866]

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Pleased by JDH’s success. JDH gives argument for occasional transport with perfect fairness.

W. R. Grove’s address [see 5201] good, but is disappointed that species part was so general.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  30 Aug [1866]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 299
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5200

Matches: 1 hit

  • … see Correspondence vol.  11, letter to John Scott, 7 November [1863] and n.  6). CD later …

To J. D. Hooker   8 October [1864]

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Huxley has answered Kölliker in Natural History Review [(1864): 566–80].

CD is correcting two of Scott’s papers; is convinced primrose and cowslip are two good species.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  8 Oct [1864]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 251
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4630

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  • … Correspondence vol.  11, letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863  and nn.  5 and 6. For CD’s …
  • 1863] . See also J.  D.  Hooker 1867  and L.  Huxley ed.  1918, 2: 98–108. Daniel Oliver had agreed to review John Scott’ …

To J. D. Hooker   22 July [1863]

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Differences between tendrils derived from leaves and those derived from branches.

CD on Asa Gray’s attitude on the Civil War.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  22 July [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 199
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4250

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  • … found; however, see the letter to John Scott, 25 [July 1863] , and the letter to Friedrich …

To J. D. Hooker   1 June [1865]

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Bad month of sickness. John Chapman’s ice bag on spine.

Does not quite agree with JDH about Lubbock’s plagiarism charges. Lyell’s memory must have failed him.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  1 June [1865]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 269, 269b
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4846

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  • … Correspondence vol.  11, letter to John Scott, 20 [June 1863] . For CD’s discussion of the …

To J. D. Hooker   10 June [1864]

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CD has proved common oxlip to be a hybrid of cowslip and primrose.

Reviewing literature on climbing plants, CD finds he has much new material.

W. H. Harvey claims evidence of saltation in a dandelion.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  10 June [1864]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 238a–c
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4525

Matches: 1 hit

  • … vol.  11, letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] and n.  11). CD initially thought …

To J. D. Hooker   [22–3 November 1863]

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Tendril-bearing plants seem to CD "higher" organised with respect to adaptive sensibility than lower animals.

Wishes to encourage John Scott.

Death of JDH’s daughter makes CD cry over his own dead daughter Annie.

Sedgwick’s scientific merit.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [22–3 Nov 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 211
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4345

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  • … there (see letter to John Scott, 1 and 3 August [1863] ). Scott 1864a . Letter from J.   …
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